Haeril Halim. Language and Politics in Indonesia; A Study of SBY’s[2] Political Speeches. This study aims at revealing out power construction, controversial aspects and intertextual references in two of SBY’s political speeches: his speech on Bibit-Chandra and century cases, and the one on welcoming the Anti Corruption day.

The data analyzing method of this study is descriptive qualitative analytic. This study used two level of analysis. They are analysis on semantic and pragmatic which gives more emphasis on the context use of utterances. Beside semantic and pragmatic analysis, this study also used some social theories like anthropology and sociology. Also, semiotic approach involves in this study.

This analysis shows that both SBY’s speech on corruption occupied the same structures as general speeches have like Opening, Body and Closing. But, the interesting point is both speeches have six bodies. Also, he always mentioned all Indonesian achievements acquired by the government in some fields and future hopes of the government in eradicating corruption. By looking at the modalities used by SBY to connect the issues of crisis and bail out, I claimed that the use of modalities were political. Shifter is one of power constructions used by SBY in this speech to minimize the gap between himself and his words. Another power construction which is specially analyzed in this study is intertextuality. By making intertextual references in his speeches SBY tried to maximize the gap between himself and his words. With regard to the controversy of his speech on Bibit-Chandra, this study found some internal and external language factors that made it controversial. They are inconsistency of using adjectives and modalities (internal factor), the corresponding time of the speech held, people expectations and plural audience, and political rupture (external factors). At last, from the metaphors or tropes used in his speeches I claimed that SBY’s speech on corruption is typically contextualization rather than entextualization. And also in making inter-textual references in his speech is meant by SBY to maximize the gap between himself and his words.

[2] Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono so called SBY is the current President of Indonesia by the time of this thesis completed (2010). He had been elected as the second time to be the president after winning the 2009 election with fantastic result; more than 50% votes.

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